Comments on: I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one! http://movabletripe.com/archive/i-got-99-problems-but-a-bitch-aint-one/ Making up launch dates since 1982 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:36:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Adam http://movabletripe.com/archive/i-got-99-problems-but-a-bitch-aint-one/comment-page-1/#comment-40996 Adam Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:50:39 +0000 http://movabletripe.com/archive/i-got-99-problems-but-a-bitch-aint-one/#comment-40996 Well, I did spend too little time and too much scotch on this. Of course <code>grep bitch myproblems.txt</code> is a better way of doing it. Old (bad) habits die hard. However, as far as I can tell, cat is needed for wc, as it outputs the filename as well. Of course, I could be wrong, but wc(1) doesn't seem to have an option to supress the output of the filename. You could always <code>wc -l myproblems.txt | awk '{print $1}'</code> but it serves the same purpose essentially. Well, I did spend too little time and too much scotch on this. Of course grep bitch myproblems.txt is a better way of doing it. Old (bad) habits die hard.

However, as far as I can tell, cat is needed for wc, as it outputs the filename as well. Of course, I could be wrong, but wc(1) doesn’t seem to have an option to supress the output of the filename. You could always wc -l myproblems.txt | awk '{print $1}' but it serves the same purpose essentially.

]]> By: tehdely http://movabletripe.com/archive/i-got-99-problems-but-a-bitch-aint-one/comment-page-1/#comment-40915 tehdely Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:30:10 +0000 http://movabletripe.com/archive/i-got-99-problems-but-a-bitch-aint-one/#comment-40915 Useless use of cat. Useless use of cat.

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